--- title: "1 Art Want Quotes By Alex Cox" description: "1 Art Want quotes by Alex Cox. Plus more from Alex Cox and more Art Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0a/alex-cox-19686_art_artists-make-their-work-to-be-seen-by-ot_765788.jpg" --- > [Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/artists-make-their-work-to-be-seen-by-others-well-really-we-do-it-to/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0a/alex-cox-19686_art_artists-make-their-work-to-be-seen-by-ot_765788.jpg) ## More by Alex Cox > [Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/because-there-is-actually-something-very-interesting-in-goodfellas/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [You can't change the system through violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/you-can-t-change-the-system-through-violence/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/in-goodfellas-they-have-this-one-scene-where-the-camera-goes-down/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/and-it-says-something-about-our-level-of-disassociation-that-we-can/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/yeah-i-d-be-happy-to-go-back-to-mexico-or-japan-to-make-another-film/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [I don't think about Hollywood at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/i-don-t-think-about-hollywood-at-all/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/shakespeare-who-is-probably-the-greatest-writer-and-poet-of-the/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/the-original-deal-we-made-was-that-walker-would-be-treated-like-a/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/one-of-my-contemporaries-a-colorless-chap-who-worked-much-harder-at/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/artists-make-their-work-to-be-seen-by-others-well-really-we-do-it-to/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/no-i-did-a-film-called-death-and-the-compass-as-well/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/the-greatest-crime-in-a-shakespeare-play-is-to-murder-the-king/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/sorry-but-there-is-no-pleasure-in-finding-new-ways-of-saying-the-same/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/justin-salinger-showed-up-one-day-with-a-pink-cowboy-hat-on-and/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) > [It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-cox/it-s-interesting-actually-what-s-gone-on-with-that-footage-and-also/) [Alex Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-cox/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-want/alex-cox/#itemlist", "name": "1 Art Want Quotes By Alex Cox", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Artists make their work to be seen by others. 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